Ripiphorus Bosc, 1791

Iskandarova, Tukazban, Japarashvili, Shota, Bulbulashvili, Natalia & Seropian, Armen, 2024, The first record of Ripiphoridae (Coleoptera, Cucujiformia, Tenebrionoidea) family in Georgia, Caucasiana 3, pp. 19-23 : 19

Genus Ripiphorus Bosc, 1791

Ripiphorus subdipterus Bosc d'Antic, 1792

Material examined.

GEORGIA - Tbilisi • 1♂; Dighomi Vill.; 41.7799°N, 44.7092°E; 657 m a.s.l.; Paliurus spina-christi dominated shrubland, dried Achillea sp.; leg. Bulbulashvili N., Seropian A.; 24 Jul. 2021; CaBOL-ID: 1011779 (Fig. 2 ) .

Remarks.

According to Chobaut (1906), the host of R. subdipterus first-instar larva is Halictus (Halictus) sexcinctus (Fabricius, 1775) - a solitary bee species known to occur in Georgia ( Tarkhnishvili et al. 2013).

Distribution.

A Western Palaearctic species, known from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, France, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Crete, Cyprus, Montenegro, North Africa, and Israel. From the neighboring territories, R. subdipterus is recorded in Armenia and Azerbaijan ( Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1976; Batelka et al. 2016).

Figures

Figures 1 - 3. 1: Macrosiagon bimaculata, female, dorsal view. 2: Ripiphorus subdipterus, male, dorsal view. 3: Ptilophorus dufouri, male, dorsal view.